Shorts Package
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Accelerator Shorts 2

Preview the next generation of homegrown directors.

82 mins
Short
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Analog Medium

A musician couple retreat to a rural property to do some recording on vintage reel-to-reel tape. Is something supernatural lurking in the old house?

Dir. Tom Campbell / 2023 / 18 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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Animale

In this striking genre-bender from Cannes Critics’ Week, a young woman wants to rise the ranks of bull-running – but a rogue animal is on the loose.

Dir. Emma Benestan / 2024 / 99 mins / France / French
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Australian Shorts

Impassioned narratives from this continent’s best.

88 mins
Feature
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Blackout

A self-loathing, alcoholic artist realises that social justice is one thing – and widespread town carnage is quite another.

Dir. Larry Fessenden / 2024 / 104 mins / USA / English
Short
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Bőr (Skin)

An isolated Hungarian mother struggles to adapt to her family’s new life in 1950s Australia.

Dir. Dylan Ferenc Nyerges / 2024 / 15 mins / Australia / English, Hungarian
Short
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Calf

In this sinister short set at an Irish farm, an accident corners a teenager into making an irreversible choice.

Dir. Jamie O'Rourke / 2023 / 15 mins / Ireland / English
Short
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Canard

Ducks, dicks and lactating tits collide in this stop-motion nightmare about the anxieties of infertility.

Dir. Elie Chapuis / 2023 / 9 mins / Switzerland / No Dialogue
Feature
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Cuckoo

Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer goes head-to-head with Downton Abbey alum Dan Stevens in this frightfully weird horror.

Dir. Tilman Singer / 2024 / 102 mins / Germany, USA / English
Feature
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The Demon Disorder

Australian make-up and VFX veteran Steve Boyle (Star Wars; Daybreakers) makes his directorial debut with this grisly body-horror creature feature.

Dir. Steve Boyle / 2024 / 85 mins / Australia / English
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Experimental Shorts

Unconventional cinema that tests the boundaries of form and function.

108 mins
Feature
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I Saw the TV Glow

Brigette Lundy-Paine and Justice Smith star as teen outsiders whose obsessive pop-culture fandom causes rifts in their realities.

Dir. Jane Schoenbrun / 2024 / 100 mins / USA / English
Feature
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Lake Mungo 4K

One of Australia’s greatest cult classics – equal parts ghost story and family drama – screens for the first time in a glorious new 4K restoration.

Dir. Joel Anderson / 2008 / 87 mins / Australia / English
Short
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The Land at Night

An eerie trip across the landscape takes a dark turn into Australian Gothic.

Dir. Richard Tuohy, Dianna Barrie / 2024 / 14 mins / Australia / No Dialogue
Short
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Matta and Matto

At the Hotel Vaip, where machines simulate human contact, guests pay a high price.

Dir. Bianca Caderas, Kerstin Zemp / 2023 / 10 mins / Switzerland / No Dialogue
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The Memphis Chronicles: Water's Edge

Step into an otherworldly cityscape representing humanity’s collective subconscious.

2024 / 20 mins / Australia, Germany / English
Feature
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The Moogai

Jon Bell expands his MIFF 2020 Best Australian Short Film winner into a feature-length horror steeped in the trauma of the Stolen Generations.

Dir. Jon Bell / 2023 / 86 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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Oddity

This award-winning spine-chiller from Caveat director Damian McCarthy unleashes horror from every corner of a haunted house.

Dir. Damian Mc Carthy / 2024 / 98 mins / Ireland / English
Feature
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The Organist

A man discovers he’s been feeding a cannibal in this deliciously macabre Melbourne-shot indie black comedy.

Dir. Andy Burkitt / 2023 / 97 mins / Australia / English
Feature
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Rumours

A gigantic brain in a forest, masturbating bog zombies, Cate Blanchett, Alicia Vikander and Charles Dance collide in Guy Maddin’s audacious latest.

Dir. Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson / 2024 / 109 mins / Germany, Canada / English
Short
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Shé (Snake)

A violin student’s competitiveness manifests as grotesque, nightmarish creatures.

Dir. Renee Zhan / 2023 / 15 mins / UK / English, Mandarin
Short
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Shameless!

When a young man is caught masturbating, he descends into a downward spiral of humiliation.

Dir. Raghav Rampal / 2024 / 9 mins / Australia / English, Hindi
Feature
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The Shrouds

Responding to his wife’s death, David Cronenberg fashions a meditation on loss, longing and grief, filtered through a necro-techno body-horror lens.

Dir. David Cronenberg / 2024 / 119 mins / France, Canada / English
Feature
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The Substance

Demi Moore satirises Hollywood ageism in this audacious and gory feminist body horror that was the talk of this year’s Cannes Film Festival.

Dir. Coralie Fargeat / 2024 / 141 mins / USA, UK, France / English
Feature
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Wake Up

In this slasher, six Gen Z activists get more than they bargained for when they break into a furniture store and face a bloodthirsty security guard.

Dir. RKSS / 2023 / 83 mins / France, Canada / English
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WTF Shorts

Unfiltered and unapologetic. Not for the faint of heart.

99 mins